[i]Vélocité d’une voiture de Giacomo Balla

“There is nothing of which every (wo)man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much (s)he is capable of doing and becoming.”

Soren Kierkegaard

There is a Buddhist prayer that I have been saying over and over again, as if it could reach the ears of my lost daughter:  “May you be free from mistaken identity.”  Napoleon Hill says, “Wisdom comes from taking the time to study yourself, to know why you are the person you are.”  In other words, we have to dive into our own silence to hear the deepest echoing emotional sonar.  In a world of compulsive social connection, obsessive texting, tweeting, (and oh yes, blogging) there is no stillness – just wave upon wave of noise.  For a fragile mind, that can be overwhelming.  We all have moments of mistaken identity.  What tethers us is love, what recalls us to ourselves is love.  Love is the center of who we are, of who we can become.